(composed). Left inset, an Italian music teacher training the children chorus of an orphanage, under the supervision of a callous guardian [back stage], to learn and sing “Il piccolo Balilla” 【see text for explanations】. Right inset, the cook disrupts twice the rehearsal in the canteen while singing simultaneously, apparently unmindful, an Albanian folk hit dedicated to a local anti-Ottoman hero. 【Images from the movie Red poppies on the wall (1976), courtesy of Albanian State Central Film Archive, Tirana】 (14).